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Perry Bible Fellowship

This comic, which I am totally late to the party, I know, is making me think about humor and how it works more so than any comedy has in a while.

Something about the way he draws on archetypes so ingrained we don't even think about them and then turning them on their head. They often tend to be jokes that aren't particularly funny per se on their own, but when cloaked in over the top satire they sort of take on a new life. In this case, upon reflection I think it's the parchment styling of the speech bubbles that ultimately made me laugh and remember the strip.

That and the art style of course. There's something about the way this guy draws faces that elevates jokes that are Family-Guy level to something gripping and hilarious and worth calling art.

I like the immersion achieved by making it resembles something like Blondie. The joke is lame until you see that isn't the joke so much as the train going into the tunnel.

According to Wikipedia, the creator said "I feel I owe it to myself and the Perry Bible Fellowship not to turn a joyful diversion into a long career", which is kind of a weird statement. I suppose he wants to move onto greater things, rather than spending a lot of time keeping this thing running.

Unfortunate in any case.

Cherrn on November 2008

All creature will die and all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai.

I've seen jars that say if the button is popped than the seal is broken. It's just showing that air has gotten into the jar and is now pushing the button on the lid upwards. The veil was holding the button down before so it wasn't immediately obvious, but once the veil was lifted the button popped back up again.

It doesn't. It just means he's singing. From an artistic perspective, one could argue that he put that in there to cause a more cacophonous discrepancy between the dialogue and the "pop" of the lid, which would underscore the attention to detail that he puts into his comics. But it's not part of the joke.

ElJeffe on November 2008

Maddie: "I named my feet. The left one is flip and the right one is flop. Oh, and also I named my flip-flops."